The Law

The "Bill ALUR", a national housing law, signed by the President of France in March 2014, allows for the rental of a property owner's "primary residence" without asking permission from local city agencies.

In Paris, this means it is legal to rent out your primary residence only if the owner lives there for more than four months out of the year.

For residential properties where the property owner does not permanently live, it is illegal to rent out the property for less than a year at a time unless it is registered as a commercial property with the city.

City officials, estimate thataround half of properties advertised on Airbnb are not primary residences and that only a tiny fraction of owners bother to register them as commercial properties.

Those caught renting out unlicensed secondary apartments, or renting out their primary residences for more than four months, face fines of up to 25,000 euros, or uner the "rule of compensation", be required to acquire a commercial property and turn it into a residential one.

Data for Airbnb in Paris

Inside Airbnb

Inside Airbnb provides data compiled from the Airbnb web-site for listings available for Paris.

A conservative occupancy model has been built in order to estimate Occupancy Rates, Income per Month and Nights per Year. More information on the methodolgy of the occupancy model can be found in the disclaimers.

Inside Airbnb: Paris uses the following parameters:

A frequently rented filter of 120 days per year to align with the Paris' definition of primary residence

A high availability metric and filter of 120 days per year to align with the Paris' definition of primary residence

A review rate of 50% for the number of guests making a booking who leave a review

An average booking of 5.2 nights unless a higher minimum nights is configured for a listing. Airbnb reported 5.2 nights as the average length of stay for guests using Airbnb in Paris

A maximum occupancy rate of 70% to ensure the occupancy model does not produce artifically high results based on the available data

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Airbnb

Airbnb provides NO PUBLIC DATA to help understand the use of their platform and the impact on cities around the world.

Airbnb also provide NO DATA to cities or states to assist them in ensuring that Airbnb hosts and Airbnb are following the local laws.

Other data

Tom Slee regularly scrapes the Airbnb site to produce maps and analysis of Airbnb use around the world.

Room Type

Depending on the room type, availability, and activity, an airbnb listing could be more like a hotel, disruptive for neighbours, taking away housing, and illegal.

Only recent and frequently booked

Activity

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estimated nights/year

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reviews/listing/month

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reviews

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price/night

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estimated occupancy

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estimated income/month

Airbnb guests may leave a review after their stay, and these can be used as an indicator of airbnb activity (although not all guests leave a review, so the actual booking activity would be much higher).

The minimum stay, price and number of reviews have been used to estimate a minimum income per month for each listing.

How does the income from running a defacto hotel (an Airbnb room or apartment) compare to a long-term lease?

And more importantly, what is renting to a tourist rather than a resident doing to our neighbourhoods?